Academic Catalog

STAT637 SPATIAL DATA ANALYSIS

Course Code: 2460637
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(3-0)
ECTS Credit: 8.0
Department: Statistics
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Graduate
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Offered Semester: Fall and Spring Semesters.

Course Content

Modeling data with spatial structure, geostatistical data, random fields; variograms, covariance, stationarity, kriging, areal data, spatial regression, SAR, CAR, QAR, MA models, Geary/Moran indices, point patterns, G, F, K, L functions, complete spatial randomness; homogeneous/inhomogeneous processes, marked point processes, spatio-temporal modeling, visualization of spatial data. The programming language R and a few packages for analyzing spatial data will also be introduced.